Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 65 75
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,808 1,963 3,311
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.86% 4.10% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 4.51% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,342 989 2,470
10th Percentile £46,526 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,856 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £115,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 1,618 £75,000 +3.45% 631
UK excluding London -70 924 £65,000 -7.14% 390
Work from Home -22 814 £65,500 -6.43% 362
London -12 738 £85,000 +3.03% 317
North of England -37 350 £69,310 -3.72% 114
South East -14 254 £65,000 -7.14% 123
North West -52 192 £75,000 +7.14% 66
South West -70 97 £52,500 -23.39% 58
Midlands -63 91 £65,000 -3.70% 49
North East +22 80 £65,000 +18.18% 19
Yorkshire -26 78 £62,500 -13.79% 30
West Midlands -39 64 £77,500 +10.71% 29
East of England -20 48 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Wales -28 41 £70,000 +34.62% 10
Scotland -63 28 £60,000 -23.87% 17
East Midlands -61 26 £64,500 +7.50% 20
Northern Ireland -36 17 £62,500 +25.00% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (1.77%) Confluence
2 25 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.88%) Apache
3 16 (0.88%) CMS
3 16 (0.88%) IIS
4 10 (0.55%) JBoss
5 9 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.39%) Camunda
6 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.33%) nginx
7 6 (0.33%) WordPress
8 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.28%) Drupal
9 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.17%) Kentico
10 3 (0.17%) NServiceBus
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.17%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.33%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 969 (53.60%) AWS
2 797 (44.08%) Azure
3 326 (18.03%) GCP
4 267 (14.77%) Serverless
5 209 (11.56%) GitHub
6 179 (9.90%) SaaS
7 159 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
9 112 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 96 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 85 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
14 77 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.60%) Azure AKS
17 59 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
18 51 (2.82%) PaaS
19 48 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.54%) Broadband
2 24 (1.33%) Network Security
3 13 (0.72%) DMARC
4 12 (0.66%) MQTT
5 11 (0.61%) DNS
6 9 (0.50%) Internet
7 8 (0.44%) AMQP
7 8 (0.44%) Firewall
7 8 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.44%) VPN
8 7 (0.39%) DHCP
9 6 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.33%) HTTP
9 6 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.28%) LTE
10 5 (0.28%) RFID
11 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (15.71%) MongoDB
2 208 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (11.06%) NoSQL
4 152 (8.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 152 (8.41%) Elasticsearch
5 117 (6.47%) MySQL
6 92 (5.09%) SQL Server
7 84 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 54 (2.99%) Redis
9 52 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 48 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (1.66%) Big Data
12 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.27%) RDBMS
13 12 (0.66%) Pinecone
14 11 (0.61%) Db2
14 11 (0.61%) DTS
15 9 (0.50%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
16 8 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 212 (11.73%) Git
2 170 (9.40%) GitLab
3 142 (7.85%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.21%) TeamCity
5 55 (3.04%) JIRA
6 49 (2.71%) JUnit
7 41 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.77%) Claude Code
9 31 (1.71%) Mockito
10 30 (1.66%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.49%) CircleCI
12 26 (1.44%) Maven
13 20 (1.11%) Selenium
14 17 (0.94%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.83%) JMeter
15 15 (0.83%) Vite
16 14 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 13 (0.72%) Postman
18 12 (0.66%) REST Assured
19 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 452 (25.00%) Finance
2 318 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 179 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 158 (8.74%) Banking
5 108 (5.97%) Retail
6 102 (5.64%) Law
7 99 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 98 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (2.99%) Financial Institution
10 49 (2.71%) Back Office
11 31 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.55%) Legal
13 26 (1.44%) Marketing
14 25 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 17 (0.94%) Advertising
17 16 (0.88%) Billing
17 16 (0.88%) Games
18 13 (0.72%) Front Office
19 12 (0.66%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 654 (36.17%) Developer
2 419 (23.17%) Senior
3 354 (19.58%) Software Engineer
4 266 (14.71%) Lead
5 249 (13.77%) Architect
6 189 (10.45%) .NET Developer
7 144 (7.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 140 (7.74%) Java Developer
9 125 (6.91%) Java Engineer
9 125 (6.91%) Senior Developer
10 118 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 101 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
12 93 (5.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 85 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
14 77 (4.26%) Software Developer
15 69 (3.82%) Lead Developer
16 66 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
17 51 (2.82%) Lead Software Engineer
17 51 (2.82%) Senior Java Engineer
18 50 (2.77%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (26.27%) .NET
2 410 (22.68%) React
3 404 (22.35%) Node.js
4 295 (16.32%) Spring
5 275 (15.21%) Spring Boot
6 271 (14.99%) RESTful
7 240 (13.27%) REST
8 213 (11.78%) ASP.NET
9 210 (11.62%) Kafka
10 202 (11.17%) .NET Core
11 196 (10.84%) AngularJS
12 185 (10.23%) Vue
13 174 (9.62%) ASP.NET Core
14 102 (5.64%) ASP.NET Web API
15 96 (5.31%) .NET Framework
16 95 (5.25%) Blazor
17 90 (4.98%) HTML
18 84 (4.65%) CSS
19 82 (4.54%) gRPC
20 70 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 551 (30.48%) Cloud Native
2 307 (16.98%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 90 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
5 79 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.49%) Over-the-Top Content
9 44 (2.43%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.60%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.49%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 26 (1.44%) e-Learning
15 25 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
16 24 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.16%) Mobile App
18 18 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.14%) Linux
2 46 (2.54%) Windows
3 20 (1.11%) Unix
4 15 (0.83%) CentOS
4 15 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.33%) Debian
5 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.22%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Android
7 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (50.72%) CI/CD
2 828 (45.80%) Agile
3 657 (36.34%) DevOps
4 654 (36.17%) Software Engineering
5 517 (28.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 423 (23.40%) Containerisation
7 420 (23.23%) Mentoring
8 376 (20.80%) Event-Driven
9 375 (20.74%) Test Automation
10 363 (20.08%) AI
11 350 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 338 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 307 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
14 259 (14.33%) Scrum
15 235 (13.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 232 (12.83%) Technical Leadership
17 226 (12.50%) TDD
18 204 (11.28%) Clean Code
19 203 (11.23%) Coaching
20 193 (10.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 593 (32.80%) Java
2 466 (25.77%) C#
3 461 (25.50%) SQL
4 445 (24.61%) Python
5 414 (22.90%) JavaScript
6 339 (18.75%) TypeScript
7 118 (6.53%) Go
8 49 (2.71%) Scala
9 43 (2.38%) C++
9 43 (2.38%) Ruby
10 42 (2.32%) PHP
11 41 (2.27%) Bash
12 26 (1.44%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.38%) Bicep
14 24 (1.33%) C
14 24 (1.33%) Rust
15 15 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.61%) Groovy
17 11 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 230 (12.72%) Security Cleared
2 172 (9.51%) Degree
3 154 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 80 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.37%) AWS Certification
6 47 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 35 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (1.27%) CISSP
9 20 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.50%) PhD
14 8 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.44%) CISM
15 6 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.33%) MBA
15 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.91%) QA
2 63 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 39 (2.16%) GDPR
4 38 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.44%) WCAG
6 23 (1.27%) SOC 2
7 22 (1.22%) NIST
7 22 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 16 (0.88%) NCSC
9 15 (0.83%) GRC
10 10 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 5 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.22%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.22%) SEPA
16 3 (0.17%) IFRS
16 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 529 (29.26%) Docker
2 22 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.22%) Firmware
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 565 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 344 (19.03%) Terraform
3 105 (5.81%) Ansible
4 96 (5.31%) Grafana
5 55 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.33%) Argo
7 19 (1.05%) Kibana
8 18 (1.00%) Puppet
9 13 (0.72%) Cilium
10 12 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.44%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.22%) Packer
12 4 (0.22%) Podman
12 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.17%) Rancher
14 2 (0.11%) Istio
14 2 (0.11%) MIIS
14 2 (0.11%) Nagios
14 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.055%) logstash
Vendors
1 279 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 77 (4.26%) Google
3 57 (3.15%) Oracle
4 45 (2.49%) Typelevel
5 35 (1.94%) OpenAI
6 26 (1.44%) Dynatrace
6 26 (1.44%) Splunk
7 18 (1.00%) IBM
8 17 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.83%) Databricks
10 14 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.72%) Adobe
11 13 (0.72%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.66%) OneLogin
13 10 (0.55%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.55%) SAP
13 10 (0.55%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.44%) Cisco
14 8 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.39%) HubSpot